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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Livesey discover on the island in Chapter XVI?
(a) The treasure
(b) A cemetery
(c) The stockade
(d) A damaged ship

2. Who goes ashore with Hunter in Chapter XVI?
(a) Trelawney
(b) Smollett
(c) Jim
(d) Livesey

3. What is Silver’s punishment, according to Chapter XXIX?
(a) Being deposed from his position
(b) Imprisonment
(c) Execution
(d) He is not given a punishment

4. Who does Silver blame for the failure of the mission, according to Chapter XXIX?
(a) Flint
(b) Smollett
(c) The mutineers
(d) Jim

5. Why does Jim have trouble sailing at the beginning of Chapter XXIII?
(a) There is no wind
(b) The sail is tattered
(c) It steers unreliably
(d) He has never sailed alone

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jim remind Silver of, according to Chapter XVIII?

2. What does a pirate hand to Silver at the beginning of Chapter XXIX?

3. Who does Jim see on deck of the Hispaniola at the beginning of Chapter XV?

4. Who asks for Tom’s forgiveness in Chapter XVIII?

5. Who is the narrator at the beginning of Chapter XVI?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the pirates’ voices on the Hispaniola in Chapter XIX suggest to Jim?

2. Why do the sailors say Tom has nothing to fear in the afterlife?

3. Why does Silver allow Livesey and Jim to speak privately in Chapter XXX?

4. What does Jim ask Israel Hands to do in Chapter XXV?

5. What does Silver tell Jim about Dr. Livesey in Chapter XXVIII?

6. What happens when Jim relaxes his guard in Chapter XXVI?

7. What conclusion does Jim make about the crew of the Hispaniola when he sees it drifting in Chapter XXIV?

8. 1Who does Jim find on the deck of the Hispaniola in Chapter XXV?

9. Why does Livesey go walking in the woods in Chapter XXII?

10. Who wants to throw the dead pirate overboard in Chapter XXVI?

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